This € 50 million humanitarian aid will provide emergency medical services, access to safe drinking water and hygiene, shelter and protection, cash assistance and support against gender-based violence
The European Union (E.U.) has announced a further humanitarian aid of € 50 million to the war-torn Ukraine, who is battling the mighty Russian invaders.
Of this, € 45 million will go for humanitarian projects in Ukraine and € 5 million will go to Moldova. This brings the E.U.’s total humanitarian aid funding in response to the war to € 143 million. This funding is part of the €1 billion support package pledged by the European Commission during the global pledging event, ‘Stand Up For Ukraine’.
This new funding will address the most pressing humanitarian needs by providing emergency medical services, access to safe drinking water and hygiene, shelter and protection, cash assistance and support against gender-based violence.
Taking it to twitter, the European Commissioner for Crisis Management – Janez Lenarčič tweeted,
With millions of people on the move or trapped in active war zones, the needs in #Ukraine are already massive.
— Janez Lenarčič (@JanezLenarcic) April 17, 2022
We are allocating a further €50 million in humanitarian funding to support the people affected by 🇷🇺’s war on 🇺🇦.
More on this 🇪🇺 funding👇https://t.co/2uvDXgZni5
Russia’s invasion has endangered the lives of civilians and caused severe damage to infrastructure and basic amenities like housing, water and electricity supply and heating. Ukrainians are living under continued attacks, armed violence, mines, family separation, looting or eviction, and human trafficking. There are high risks of gender-based violence against women and girls.
The war in Ukraine has already forced more than 11.7 million people to leave their homes, of which over 4.7 million people fled to neighbouring countries like the Republic of Moldova, Romania, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary. The majority of those fleeing Ukraine are women and children. This is the fastest-growing refugee crisis in the world.
On February 28, 2022, the European Commission announced € 90 million in humanitarian aid to Ukraine to help civilians affected by the war in Ukraine. This included € 85 million for Ukraine and € 5 million for Moldova. On March 10, 2022, the European Commission allocated further humanitarian funding of € 3 million to Moldova to support civilians fleeing Ukraine.
Besides, the European Commission is also coordinating its largest ever civil protection operation to assist affected people both in Ukraine and its neighbouring countries. As of now, more than 19,000 tonnes of assistance have been delivered to Ukraine from the E.U.’s logistics hubs in Poland, Slovakia and Romania. The assistance was coordinated via the E.U. Civil Protection Mechanism ad included essential supplies like medicines, food, power generators and shelter equipment.
